Emotions and Social Movements

Affect, citizenship, politics: implications for education

“…In the past decade there has been a growing interest in the role of emotion and affect in the study of politics, identity, and public life (Ahmed 2004;Barbalet 2002;Flam and King 2005;Goodwin and Jasper 2003). This literature reconceptualises emotion and affect as necessary for constituting collective identity and for participating in social and political action.…”

Emociones y subjetividad. Un análisis desde abajo de las luchas por la defensa del territorio

“…das de estas experiencias de protesta, porque las emociones ayudan a explicar el origen y el alcance de los movimientos sociales, así como su continuación o declive (Jasper, 1998). Las emociones son «un elemento fundamental de la sociedad» (Flam y King, 2005: 3) y ejercen efectos significativos en los movimientos (Gould, 2004). De hecho, las consecuencias relacionales, cognitivas y emocionales de la protesta afectan a los propios movimientos (Della Porta, 2008;Jasper, 1997) y se relacionan con la capacidad de transformar la protesta.…”

The power of popular publicity: new social media and the affective dynamics of the sport racism scandal

“…From this 'enlightened', modernist perspective, emotions were considered the antithesis of rationality, as exemplified by nineteenth-century crowd theory, which portrayed irrational, violent mobs, characterised by emotional 'contagion' and exaggerated sentiments (see Baker, 2012a). The 'emotional turn' marks a paradigm shift, with emotions no longer opposed to rationality, but rather conceived as constituent of procedural rationality, with collective emotions and action governed by the same goal-seeking activity that operates at an individual level (Flam, 2000), and even in the context of crowd behaviour and social movements (Flam and King, 2005). Understanding how emotions may structure action, bind and rupture the moral order of society is a key sociological task.…”